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Have you watched Jeopardy ever? The 'questions' are often pretty obscurely worded, and the IBM computer often comes to completely bonkers conclusions despite yo
by Qz 16y ago
Have you watched Jeopardy ever? The 'questions' are often pretty obscurely worded, and the IBM computer often comes to completely bonkers conclusions despite your supposed 'confined question space'.
- dnautics 16y agoI want to see it go on 'are you smarter than a fifth grader'. The sorts of questions they should ask aren't ones that require knowledge but creativity, understanding, and elision of concepts. For example: If Dog is three and elephant is eight then what is ostrich? Guarantee a fifth grader gets seven, but Watson is stumped.
- cookiecaper 16y agoI have watched Jeopardy. It's questions are no more obscurely worded than what my mom types into a search engine. The search engine is often able to produce reasonable results, which is impressive in isolation and I recognize the difficulty of that, but not something to make a huge PR event out of, as there are many applications with similar parsing ability (like search engines). Jeopardy always words something in the same format with a lot of information about the answer. Perhaps I am too far removed, but to me it doesn't seem like a huge advance in natural language research or anything worth all this attention. It's clearly a PR event purchased by IBM to try to sell more software along that line, hardly revolutionary.